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Jigoku
Japan - 1960
Directing by: Nobuo Nakagawa
Writing: Nobuo Nakagawa, Ichirô Miyagawa
Cinematography: Mamoru Morita
Music: Chumei Watanabe
Produced by: Mitsugu Ôkura
Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yōichi Numata
Distributor: Extralucid Films
Language : Japanese // Subtitles : English and french
Writing: Nobuo Nakagawa, Ichirô Miyagawa
Cinematography: Mamoru Morita
Music: Chumei Watanabe
Produced by: Mitsugu Ôkura
Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yōichi Numata
Distributor: Extralucid Films
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Shimizu and Tamura kill a pedestrian while driving. Tamura tries to talk his friend out of confessing. Consumed by guilt, Shimizu will discover the torments of Buddhist Hell.
Max Linder Panorama
Legally restricted to persons over 16
Lenght : 101 min // Ratio : 2.35 // Format : dcp 4kLanguage : Japanese // Subtitles : English and french
Shimizu and Tamura kill a pedestrian while driving. Tamura tries to talk his friend out of confessing. Consumed by guilt, Shimizu will discover the torments of Buddhist Hell.
A masterpiece from 1960, Nobuo Nakagawa’s Jigoku is retrospectively considered the first gore film in the history of cinema. Its art direction and nightmarish colors offer a Dantesque plunge into damnation. This theatrical and psychedelic vision of Purgatory, with its stylized tortures, makes it an experience of terrifying modernity.
French premiere of the 4K film restoration.